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Born into a blue-collar family in the Jim Crow South, Herman J. Russell built a shoeshine business when he was twelve years old—and used the profits to buy a vacant lot where he built a duplex while he was still a teen. Over the next fifty years, he continued to build businesses, amassing one of the nation's most profitable minority-owned conglomerates.
In Building Atlanta, Russell shares his inspiring life story and reveals how he overcame racism, poverty, and a debilitating speech impediment to become one of the most successful African American entrepreneurs, Atlanta civic leaders, and unsung heroes of the civil rights movement. Not just a typical rags-to-riches story, Russell achieved his success through focus, planning, and humility, and he shares his winning advice throughout. As a millionaire builder before the civil rights movement took hold and a friend of Dr. King, Ralph Abernathy, and Andrew Young, he quietly helped finance the civil rights crusade, putting up bond for protestors and providing the funds that kept King's dream alive. He provides a wonderful behind-the-scenes look at the role the business community, both black and white working together, played in Atlanta's peaceful progression from the capital of the racially divided Old South to the financial center of the New South.
Contents
Contents
Introduction by Former US Ambassador Andrew Young
Prologue
PART I: Growing, Working, and Learning
1. Life, One Word at a Time
2. High School Hero
3. Tuskegee Institute: An Educated Class
PART II: H. J. Russell & Company: Atlanta's Do-It-All Contractor
4. Black Entrepreneurship Takes Hold, Part 1
5. Otelia Hackney: A Black Woman Emerges
PART III: Dr. King and the Civil Rights Movement
6. Swimming at the Deep End of Social Change
7. Black Entrepreneurship Takes Hold, Part 2
8. My Big Greek Brother (From Another Mother)
9. Desegregating the Good Ol' Boys
10. A Leg Up and Over: Joint Ventures
PART IV: It's a Living
11. Before Takeoff and Landing, Visit Us at Concessions International
12. The Beer Years
13. The H. J. Russell Institute of Good Common Sense
14. Mixing Business and Politics
PART V: Family First
15. The Wonders of Otelia
16. Born Leaders
17. . . . And Hello to Sylvia
PART VI: Sixty Years Later
18. All the Rest of My Days
Acknowledgments
Index
About the Authors
